{"product_id":"books-blue-hunger-by-viola-di-grado","title":"Blue Hunger","description":"An Irish Times Book of the Year   An electrifying descent from loneliness and grief into obsessive, all-consuming love, by an Italian literary star.   ‘When Xu bites me, when she has me in her teeth, naked and bad on top of me, everything is good.’   In a skyscraper apartment overlooking Shanghai’s blue-tinged, pulsating nightlife and filled with rotting food, two women swallow little yellow pills that will make all things dangerous feel safe. They’re both running from a turbulent past.   In abandoned factories and dilapidated slaughterhouses, Xu pushes Ruben to extremes of pleasure and pain that she has never experienced before, to a place where language breaks down and passion becomes consumption.   Blue Hunger asks how we create our identities and how we escape them; it is a fever-dream of a novel, visionary and uncanny, that demolishes all taboos and wisely explores, in a wildly imaginative language, the twisted peaks of loss and desire.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53672625438993,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781914484278.jpg?v=1781520547","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/books-blue-hunger-by-viola-di-grado","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}